Nehemia Stern
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nehemia Stern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nehemia |
| FAMILY NAME | Stern |
| SIGNATURE | STERN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ariel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4842-0544 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Religious Affiliation and Military Service in the United States
Those who serve in the armed forces are shaped not only by incentives and opportunity structures but also by institutions that cultivate norms of duty, authority, and collective obligation. This study argues that religious institutions function as such socializing agents and play a measurable role in military enlistment in the United States. Complementing existing research that focuses on denomination or belief as key indicators, we introduce an …
Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel
This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership, and more specifically why these women are so invested in concealing their personal handguns despite the …
Lived hybridity and armed citizenship: Civilian gun ownership in contemporary Israel
This article develops the concept of lived hybridity to theorize civilian gun culture in Israel as a form of agency enacted within contradictory structures of power, legality, and identity. Based on three and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork and 36 interviews, we show how Israeli gun owners navigate the conflicting logics of state-conferred privilege and liberal individual right. Rather than reflecting pure state militarism, civilian gun ow…
From Both Sides of the Iron Door – Sensemaking of Military Leaders During Hostage Rescue Operations: An Example from October 7 th 2023
This study examines military leaders’ sensemaking processes during the October 7th, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, focusing on civilian-military interactions in an unprecedented crisis. Using Karl Weick's sensemaking theory, the research analyzes semi-structured interviews with military leaders to explore how officers interpreted and responded to extreme uncertainty. The study highlights three key sensemaking strategies: social interactio…
Locked, loaded, and online”: Gendered critiques of Israeli security through the lens of female gun owners
This article examines how armed Israeli women use social media to engage with male-dominated securitization practices in Israel. With a systematic discursive analysis of over 1,000 posts on a closed WhatsApp group for armed Israeli women, we demonstrate, how these women are able to critique the traditionally masculine framing of Israeli security culture and reimagine their roles as protectors in both family and public spheres. Theoretically we ar…
Gender on the Front Line: Representations of Female Military Personnel on Ukrainian Social Media
The role of female soldiers in armed conflicts has garnered significant attention. In Ukraine’s Armed Forces many women serve both on the frontlines and in support roles, facing hardships while striving to maintain a sense of femininity. Social media platforms provide a crucial space for expressing their complex identities: strong yet fragile, modern yet respectful of traditions, courageous warriors yet tender wives and mothers. Through content a…
You Can't Always Run Away: Gender Reflexivity and Personal Firearms Ownership among Civilian Women Gun Owners in Israel
This article explores the interplay between the nation-state, gender, and security by exploring embodied experiences of Israeli women gun owners. Growing skepticism toward Israel's historically state-centric security model has driven a significant increase in women's personal handgun ownership, disrupting and reconfiguring traditional gender identities. As the state's monopoly on public security erodes, armed women increasingly take on the role o…
Wassach: Firearms enchantment and 'gun culture' in an Israel Defense Forces reserve combat unit
This article focuses on the 'enchanted' materiality of state militarism by offering an anthropological analysis of 'gun culture' within the reservist ranks of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Through primarily ethnographic observations of one reserve combat unit over the span of a decade, we will argue that the ways in which firearms are handled by individual soldiers symbolically mirrors much broader strategic and political tensions between two …
Shadows of identity: The experience of Jewish soldiers in the Ukrainian military
This article delves into the study of Jewish identity within the Ukrainian army, providing a detailed exploration of the experiences of soldiers with Jewish backgrounds fighting at the front lines of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Considering the historical complexities and contemporary challenges faced by the Jewish community in Ukraine, the study investigates how military service transforms the national and ethnic self-identification of Jewish sold…
The Oral History of “Pandemic Time”: Students’ Lives Through the Global Covid-19 Pandemic
This article offers a reflective account of student memories of the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic in both the Czech Republic and Israel. By comparing the narratives of students from these nations, we introduce the notion of "pandemic time" to describe the ways in which personal experiences of time rest betwixt and between objective historical events and individual meaning-making. In this way, we argue that university students narrated the …
Gendering the Struggle: Women's Voices of Resistance and the Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union
This article analyzes the contribution of women to the Soviet Union's Jewish movement. We argue that an assessment of the personal stories of Jewish female activists in the former Soviet Union reveals a uniquely meaningful impact on the exodus of Jewry from the Soviet Union, the image of the Soviet Jewish struggle in the international arena, and the establishment of a human rights movements in its support. We explore who these women were, their p…
Military timescapes: The corporeal experience of time in an Israel defense forces reserve combat unit
This article explores the concept of time among combat reservists in the Israel Defense Forces. Most ethnographic studies of temporality tend to focus on how time's passage is measured or 'reckoned' within varying cultural contexts. In contrast, this article looks to the more corporeal and embodied aspects of the human experience of time. It argues that within Israeli military contexts time is experienced as a near material-like substance that im…
We Are the Homeowners: Sacred Textuality and the Social Structure of Jewish Religious Nationalism in Israel and the West Bank
This article offers an anthropological look at sacred textuality by exploring the social and theological structure of Jewish religious nationalism in Israel and the West Bank. It argues that the study of sacred texts serves as a medium through which Jewish religious Zionists articulate what it means to return to an ancestral homeland. It demonstrates how the study of these sacred texts is implicated in the cultivation of two different structural …
The Chain of Hebrew Soldiers”: Reconsidering “Religionization” within an IDF Bible Seminar
This article presents an ethnographic analysis of the educational and religious tensions that emerged during a five-day biblical seminar run by the Israel Defense Forces’ Identity and Jewish Consciousness Unit. We argue that despite the official focus on professionalization as a pedagogical parameter, the seminar participants themselves reacted to biblical narratives in ways that indicate a distinct kind of personal and individualized discourse. …
Philology's a Thing of God: Edward Sapir and the Jewish Subtexts of American Anthropology
This Social Thought & Commentary piece explores certain Jewish subtexts of American anthropological thought from the first half of the 20th century, focusing on the theoretical and artistic work of Edward Sapir. Utilizing Sapir’s academic, lay, and distinctly Jewish publications, along with newly uncovered archival material, I argue that Sapir’s deep ambivalence regarding the prospects for Jewishness and modern Jewish identity in the United State…
Tunnel Operations in the Israel Defense Forces: Adapting the Warrior Ethos to Post-Heroic Conflict
This study presents an empirically grounded account of tunnel combat operations in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) within the context of 'post-heroic' warfare. Current scholarship on 'post-heroism' has viewed the technological and professional standards of contemporary military conflicts as distancing the individual combatant from the modern battlefield. Little attention has been given however to the ways in which soldiers themselves experience a…
A phenomenological analysis of subterranean operations in the Israel Defense Forces
This article analyses the experiences of IDF soldiers involved in subterranean operations in Gaza. While tunnel warfare is a central element in warfare, few sociological studies have focused on this element of combat. In-depth interviews reveal the day-to-day experiences of the specialised combat engineering units tasked with subterranean operations during the past two decades. The themes identified are: ‘Operational activity in tunnels as an exp…
Subverting the strategic corporal: The IDF’s contemporary heroic imagination
How does the Israel Defence Forces cultivate the image of a ‘hero’ within its combat ranks? By analysing a series of online educational videos on combat heritage, this article will demonstrate how the IDF’s current heroic imagination is grounded in a subversion of the ‘Strategic Corporal’ paradigm. Within this paradigm, junior ranking soldiers are seen as increasing the chaos inherent in asymmetrical conflicts. By contrast, this article will argu…
Confessions and Tweets: Social Media and Everyday Experience in the Israel Defense Forces
This article explores the social media postings of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers on two different and unofficial Facebook groups. While scholars of armed forces and society have noted the growing importance that militaries have placed on digital media, there is little data regarding the unofficial uses and meanings that regular soldiers themselves make of social networking sites. With an anthropological focus on everyday experiences, we ar…
The Israel-Lebanon conflict in war cinema: An organisational and comparative analysis
This article focuses on the organisational aspects of combat as represented in Israeli films about the Lebanon Wars. It analyzes four prominent films that relate to Israel’s engagement in Lebanon from the 1982 war to its operations in the southern security strip. The analysis is augmented by comparison to prominent Israeli war films on the 1973 Yom-Kippur War. These films reflect a common and coherent Military Habitus that originates in the organ…
Beyond faith and foxholes: Vernacular religion and asymmetrical warfare within contemporary IDF combat units
This paper explores the vernacular roles that religious practices and experiences play within contemporary combat units of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). We argue for an anthropological perspective that highlights the modes through which rituals serve efficacious – as opposed to semiotic – ends. In this way, we seek to push back against what we term the ‘faith in a foxhole’ paradigm, where religion is primarily seen as a meaning-making system w…
Soldiers and Scholars: Ritual Dilemmas among National Religious Combat Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces
This article explores how the practice of Jewish rabbinic law within the combat ranks of the Israel Defense Forces can be used as an ethnographic medium through which anthropologists may better contextualize the social and political tensions that characterize Jewish religious nationalism in Israel. We argue that national religious combat soldiers rarely turn to rabbinic legal tracts, or to the overlapping levels of military and civilian rabbinic …
The social life of the Samson Saga in Israeli religious Zionist rabbinic discourse
This article will explore how different contemporary groups of Israeli religious Zionists read and relate to the Biblical tales of Samson. Using current religious Zionist discourse (Bible lessons, newspaper articles and written opinion pieces) authored or delivered by leading rabbinic figures, this article will demonstrate how contemporary interpretations of the ‘Samson Saga’ (Judges 13–16) are used as a medium through which contemporary religiou…
To sanctify the name of God: Ritual precision and martyrdom in Rabbi Ephraim Oshry’s Holocaust responsa
This article will analyze a collection of religious queries and responses written by Rabbi Ephraim Oshry, a well-known halakhic decisor of the Kovno Ghetto. It will demonstrate how Rabbi Oshry utilized questions concerning ritual practice and precision to empirically quantify and categorize a new reality of genocide. Here classical forms of Jewish martyrdom were used as a framework through which ghetto inmates could exert a certain amount of ritu…
The social life of the Samson Saga in Israeli religious Zionist rabbinic discourse
This article will explore how different contemporary groups of Israeli religious Zionists read and relate to the Biblical tales of Samson. Using current religious Zionist discourse (Bible lessons, newspaper articles and written opinion pieces) authored or delivered by leading rabbinic figures, this article will demonstrate how contemporary interpretations of the ‘Samson Saga’ (Judges 13–16) are used as a medium through which contemporary religiou…
Tunnel Operations in the Israel Defense Forces: Adapting the Warrior Ethos to Post-Heroic Conflict
This study presents an empirically grounded account of tunnel combat operations in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) within the context of 'post-heroic' warfare. Current scholarship on 'post-heroism' has viewed the technological and professional standards of contemporary military conflicts as distancing the individual combatant from the modern battlefield. Little attention has been given however to the ways in which soldiers themselves experience a…
Wassach: Firearms enchantment and 'gun culture' in an Israel Defense Forces reserve combat unit
This article focuses on the 'enchanted' materiality of state militarism by offering an anthropological analysis of 'gun culture' within the reservist ranks of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Through primarily ethnographic observations of one reserve combat unit over the span of a decade, we will argue that the ways in which firearms are handled by individual soldiers symbolically mirrors much broader strategic and political tensions between two …
Confessions and Tweets: Social Media and Everyday Experience in the Israel Defense Forces
This article explores the social media postings of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers on two different and unofficial Facebook groups. While scholars of armed forces and society have noted the growing importance that militaries have placed on digital media, there is little data regarding the unofficial uses and meanings that regular soldiers themselves make of social networking sites. With an anthropological focus on everyday experiences, we ar…
Soldiers and Scholars: Ritual Dilemmas among National Religious Combat Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces
This article explores how the practice of Jewish rabbinic law within the combat ranks of the Israel Defense Forces can be used as an ethnographic medium through which anthropologists may better contextualize the social and political tensions that characterize Jewish religious nationalism in Israel. We argue that national religious combat soldiers rarely turn to rabbinic legal tracts, or to the overlapping levels of military and civilian rabbinic …
Shadows of identity: The experience of Jewish soldiers in the Ukrainian military
This article delves into the study of Jewish identity within the Ukrainian army, providing a detailed exploration of the experiences of soldiers with Jewish backgrounds fighting at the front lines of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Considering the historical complexities and contemporary challenges faced by the Jewish community in Ukraine, the study investigates how military service transforms the national and ethnic self-identification of Jewish sold…
Gendering the Struggle: Women's Voices of Resistance and the Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union
This article analyzes the contribution of women to the Soviet Union's Jewish movement. We argue that an assessment of the personal stories of Jewish female activists in the former Soviet Union reveals a uniquely meaningful impact on the exodus of Jewry from the Soviet Union, the image of the Soviet Jewish struggle in the international arena, and the establishment of a human rights movements in its support. We explore who these women were, their p…
Philology's a Thing of God: Edward Sapir and the Jewish Subtexts of American Anthropology
This Social Thought & Commentary piece explores certain Jewish subtexts of American anthropological thought from the first half of the 20th century, focusing on the theoretical and artistic work of Edward Sapir. Utilizing Sapir’s academic, lay, and distinctly Jewish publications, along with newly uncovered archival material, I argue that Sapir’s deep ambivalence regarding the prospects for Jewishness and modern Jewish identity in the United State…
Subverting the strategic corporal: The IDF’s contemporary heroic imagination
How does the Israel Defence Forces cultivate the image of a ‘hero’ within its combat ranks? By analysing a series of online educational videos on combat heritage, this article will demonstrate how the IDF’s current heroic imagination is grounded in a subversion of the ‘Strategic Corporal’ paradigm. Within this paradigm, junior ranking soldiers are seen as increasing the chaos inherent in asymmetrical conflicts. By contrast, this article will argu…
To sanctify the name of God: Ritual precision and martyrdom in Rabbi Ephraim Oshry’s Holocaust responsa
This article will analyze a collection of religious queries and responses written by Rabbi Ephraim Oshry, a well-known halakhic decisor of the Kovno Ghetto. It will demonstrate how Rabbi Oshry utilized questions concerning ritual practice and precision to empirically quantify and categorize a new reality of genocide. Here classical forms of Jewish martyrdom were used as a framework through which ghetto inmates could exert a certain amount of ritu…
The social life of the Samson Saga in Israeli religious Zionist rabbinic discourse
This article will explore how different contemporary groups of Israeli religious Zionists read and relate to the Biblical tales of Samson. Using current religious Zionist discourse (Bible lessons, newspaper articles and written opinion pieces) authored or delivered by leading rabbinic figures, this article will demonstrate how contemporary interpretations of the ‘Samson Saga’ (Judges 13–16) are used as a medium through which contemporary religiou…
The Israel-Lebanon conflict in war cinema: An organisational and comparative analysis
This article focuses on the organisational aspects of combat as represented in Israeli films about the Lebanon Wars. It analyzes four prominent films that relate to Israel’s engagement in Lebanon from the 1982 war to its operations in the southern security strip. The analysis is augmented by comparison to prominent Israeli war films on the 1973 Yom-Kippur War. These films reflect a common and coherent Military Habitus that originates in the organ…
Beyond faith and foxholes: Vernacular religion and asymmetrical warfare within contemporary IDF combat units
This paper explores the vernacular roles that religious practices and experiences play within contemporary combat units of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). We argue for an anthropological perspective that highlights the modes through which rituals serve efficacious – as opposed to semiotic – ends. In this way, we seek to push back against what we term the ‘faith in a foxhole’ paradigm, where religion is primarily seen as a meaning-making system w…
Soldiers and Scholars: Ritual Dilemmas among National Religious Combat Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces
This article explores how the practice of Jewish rabbinic law within the combat ranks of the Israel Defense Forces can be used as an ethnographic medium through which anthropologists may better contextualize the social and political tensions that characterize Jewish religious nationalism in Israel. We argue that national religious combat soldiers rarely turn to rabbinic legal tracts, or to the overlapping levels of military and civilian rabbinic …
A phenomenological analysis of subterranean operations in the Israel Defense Forces
This article analyses the experiences of IDF soldiers involved in subterranean operations in Gaza. While tunnel warfare is a central element in warfare, few sociological studies have focused on this element of combat. In-depth interviews reveal the day-to-day experiences of the specialised combat engineering units tasked with subterranean operations during the past two decades. The themes identified are: ‘Operational activity in tunnels as an exp…
Subverting the strategic corporal: The IDF’s contemporary heroic imagination
How does the Israel Defence Forces cultivate the image of a ‘hero’ within its combat ranks? By analysing a series of online educational videos on combat heritage, this article will demonstrate how the IDF’s current heroic imagination is grounded in a subversion of the ‘Strategic Corporal’ paradigm. Within this paradigm, junior ranking soldiers are seen as increasing the chaos inherent in asymmetrical conflicts. By contrast, this article will argu…
Confessions and Tweets: Social Media and Everyday Experience in the Israel Defense Forces
This article explores the social media postings of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers on two different and unofficial Facebook groups. While scholars of armed forces and society have noted the growing importance that militaries have placed on digital media, there is little data regarding the unofficial uses and meanings that regular soldiers themselves make of social networking sites. With an anthropological focus on everyday experiences, we ar…
The Chain of Hebrew Soldiers”: Reconsidering “Religionization” within an IDF Bible Seminar
This article presents an ethnographic analysis of the educational and religious tensions that emerged during a five-day biblical seminar run by the Israel Defense Forces’ Identity and Jewish Consciousness Unit. We argue that despite the official focus on professionalization as a pedagogical parameter, the seminar participants themselves reacted to biblical narratives in ways that indicate a distinct kind of personal and individualized discourse. …
Philology's a Thing of God: Edward Sapir and the Jewish Subtexts of American Anthropology
This Social Thought & Commentary piece explores certain Jewish subtexts of American anthropological thought from the first half of the 20th century, focusing on the theoretical and artistic work of Edward Sapir. Utilizing Sapir’s academic, lay, and distinctly Jewish publications, along with newly uncovered archival material, I argue that Sapir’s deep ambivalence regarding the prospects for Jewishness and modern Jewish identity in the United State…
Tunnel Operations in the Israel Defense Forces: Adapting the Warrior Ethos to Post-Heroic Conflict
This study presents an empirically grounded account of tunnel combat operations in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) within the context of 'post-heroic' warfare. Current scholarship on 'post-heroism' has viewed the technological and professional standards of contemporary military conflicts as distancing the individual combatant from the modern battlefield. Little attention has been given however to the ways in which soldiers themselves experience a…
We Are the Homeowners: Sacred Textuality and the Social Structure of Jewish Religious Nationalism in Israel and the West Bank
This article offers an anthropological look at sacred textuality by exploring the social and theological structure of Jewish religious nationalism in Israel and the West Bank. It argues that the study of sacred texts serves as a medium through which Jewish religious Zionists articulate what it means to return to an ancestral homeland. It demonstrates how the study of these sacred texts is implicated in the cultivation of two different structural …
Shadows of identity: The experience of Jewish soldiers in the Ukrainian military
This article delves into the study of Jewish identity within the Ukrainian army, providing a detailed exploration of the experiences of soldiers with Jewish backgrounds fighting at the front lines of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Considering the historical complexities and contemporary challenges faced by the Jewish community in Ukraine, the study investigates how military service transforms the national and ethnic self-identification of Jewish sold…
The Oral History of “Pandemic Time”: Students’ Lives Through the Global Covid-19 Pandemic
This article offers a reflective account of student memories of the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic in both the Czech Republic and Israel. By comparing the narratives of students from these nations, we introduce the notion of "pandemic time" to describe the ways in which personal experiences of time rest betwixt and between objective historical events and individual meaning-making. In this way, we argue that university students narrated the …
Gendering the Struggle: Women's Voices of Resistance and the Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union
This article analyzes the contribution of women to the Soviet Union's Jewish movement. We argue that an assessment of the personal stories of Jewish female activists in the former Soviet Union reveals a uniquely meaningful impact on the exodus of Jewry from the Soviet Union, the image of the Soviet Jewish struggle in the international arena, and the establishment of a human rights movements in its support. We explore who these women were, their p…
Military timescapes: The corporeal experience of time in an Israel defense forces reserve combat unit
This article explores the concept of time among combat reservists in the Israel Defense Forces. Most ethnographic studies of temporality tend to focus on how time's passage is measured or 'reckoned' within varying cultural contexts. In contrast, this article looks to the more corporeal and embodied aspects of the human experience of time. It argues that within Israeli military contexts time is experienced as a near material-like substance that im…
From Both Sides of the Iron Door – Sensemaking of Military Leaders During Hostage Rescue Operations: An Example from October 7 th 2023
This study examines military leaders’ sensemaking processes during the October 7th, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, focusing on civilian-military interactions in an unprecedented crisis. Using Karl Weick's sensemaking theory, the research analyzes semi-structured interviews with military leaders to explore how officers interpreted and responded to extreme uncertainty. The study highlights three key sensemaking strategies: social interactio…
Locked, loaded, and online”: Gendered critiques of Israeli security through the lens of female gun owners
This article examines how armed Israeli women use social media to engage with male-dominated securitization practices in Israel. With a systematic discursive analysis of over 1,000 posts on a closed WhatsApp group for armed Israeli women, we demonstrate, how these women are able to critique the traditionally masculine framing of Israeli security culture and reimagine their roles as protectors in both family and public spheres. Theoretically we ar…
Gender on the Front Line: Representations of Female Military Personnel on Ukrainian Social Media
The role of female soldiers in armed conflicts has garnered significant attention. In Ukraine’s Armed Forces many women serve both on the frontlines and in support roles, facing hardships while striving to maintain a sense of femininity. Social media platforms provide a crucial space for expressing their complex identities: strong yet fragile, modern yet respectful of traditions, courageous warriors yet tender wives and mothers. Through content a…
You Can't Always Run Away: Gender Reflexivity and Personal Firearms Ownership among Civilian Women Gun Owners in Israel
This article explores the interplay between the nation-state, gender, and security by exploring embodied experiences of Israeli women gun owners. Growing skepticism toward Israel's historically state-centric security model has driven a significant increase in women's personal handgun ownership, disrupting and reconfiguring traditional gender identities. As the state's monopoly on public security erodes, armed women increasingly take on the role o…
Wassach: Firearms enchantment and 'gun culture' in an Israel Defense Forces reserve combat unit
This article focuses on the 'enchanted' materiality of state militarism by offering an anthropological analysis of 'gun culture' within the reservist ranks of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Through primarily ethnographic observations of one reserve combat unit over the span of a decade, we will argue that the ways in which firearms are handled by individual soldiers symbolically mirrors much broader strategic and political tensions between two …
Religious Affiliation and Military Service in the United States
Those who serve in the armed forces are shaped not only by incentives and opportunity structures but also by institutions that cultivate norms of duty, authority, and collective obligation. This study argues that religious institutions function as such socializing agents and play a measurable role in military enlistment in the United States. Complementing existing research that focuses on denomination or belief as key indicators, we introduce an …
Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel
This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership, and more specifically why these women are so invested in concealing their personal handguns despite the …
Lived hybridity and armed citizenship: Civilian gun ownership in contemporary Israel
This article develops the concept of lived hybridity to theorize civilian gun culture in Israel as a form of agency enacted within contradictory structures of power, legality, and identity. Based on three and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork and 36 interviews, we show how Israeli gun owners navigate the conflicting logics of state-conferred privilege and liberal individual right. Rather than reflecting pure state militarism, civilian gun ow…
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